Artificial Ant Colony: Features and applications on medical image segmentation

Ant Colony Systems (ACS) have been applied to solve complex problems. The first Ant System was proposed in the earlier nineties, and since then several studies were performed to apply this paradigm in real problems. Several researchers have explored the idea of applying ACS to image processing. Herein, the original ACS models applied to image processing are presented. Moreover, two new models, based on the previous ones, are proposed and applied in two different types of medical images: mammogram and microtomography.